Unfortunately, it's just so difficult to get the planes I want here, at least at any reasonable price.

As collectors buy up limited releases, It's become more like collecting hockey or baseball cards then acquiring miniatures for a game- and with prices to match. Over the years it's just been too many hoops for me to jump in order just to play a wargame.

It's too bad, as I love the genre, and really do enjoy the system. I just wish they would just sell the unpainted sprues; I'd happily assemble and paint them myself.

"So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable."-Aldous Huxley

Just shows, a 1916 bird can still hold its own against 1918 scouts! - good job production difficulties made the Roland a smaller player on the Western front - judging by these games the Boche may have won the war!